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Ambulatory ECG recordings from patients undergoing severe physical stress are corrupted by large muscle artifacts, baseline drifts, and motion-induced currents, creating a need for reliable R-wave detection under low QRS signal-to-noise ratio conditions.
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May enhance single-lead beat detection amid ambulatory artifacts; leaves open prospective clinical validation before adoption.
Ambulatory electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings from patients undergoing severe physical stress are corrupted by large muscle artifacts (EMG) and other noise sources, such as baseline drifts and currents induced by motion artifacts and electromechanical devices. A simple and reliable QRS filter and R-wave detectot unit, for use under moderate to low QRS signal-to-noise ratio conditions, is described. It is found that a narrow bandpass sampled data filter design with a center frequency and bandwidth equal to 4 Hz maximizes the QRS signal-to-noise ratio under such conditions. The detector includes automatic gain control and a differencing integrator for improved R-wave detection.
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Olivier Y. de Vel (1984) studied Arrhythmia and ventricular beat detection in ECG signals (n=232). Heuristic single-lead ventricular and ectopic beat detection algorithm vs. Database beat annotations was evaluated on Ventricular beat detection sensitivity and specificity across combined AHA and MIT-BIH databases.
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